How
to be a great teacher?
Since last year, I always thinking and asking about this. How to
be a great teacher? How to explain things clearly? How to make my students
understand the topic?
It's fourth month I'm teaching in school, and the first month I'm
teaching in International Curriculum.
And I face more struggle. Not just for the topics, but also the
method and language.
As long as I'm teaching, I already got four comments from my
students.
1. Miss, you explain like a textbook.
2. Miss, as long as you explain, i'm not understand one of them.
3. Miss, you explain plain. You always stop after you finish what
you want to say, you stop. Even when we don't understand.
It's always about understanding and the way I explain.
How to explain clearly?
This question rise up and pops more in my brain everytime I finish
my schedule. I'm afraid that I can't make my student follow and understand the
topic i've been teach. i'm afraid that the smart student become unmotivated and
drop when I teach.
When I choose to be a teacher, I just potrayed my self as a person
that talk in front of my students. And time after time, I realize that am I
really can stand and talk in front of my students?
I never imagine that teacher is a profesion that ask you to always
learn, mentally tiring and ask too much of you. Time, energy, and idea.
After sharing with my fellow teachers, I got some insight that I'm
not alone feeling this things (not in the explain-understand part yha).
Teaching is mentally tiring because there is a time we should
switch ourself, to become another person before entering the classroom. Be a
new person.
When students so noisy in the class, I overwhelmed. But its so
hard to dicipline them. When I admonished them, I feel like I lost lots of
energy. And somethimes I afraid if they don't like me because I scold them.
I'm afraid that I lose control in the class room.
I'm afraid that if I'm not capable enough to teach them. That I
still need a lot of learning and training. That I need more faith in myself.
